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Driver in Custody After Crashing Into Chabad Headquarters in Brooklyn, Police Say
The driver was taken into custody after repeatedly ramming the Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters; police found no immediate threat but continue investigating motives.
- On Wednesday night, a vehicle struck the side doors of 770 Eastern Parkway and the operator was taken into custody as the NYPD launched an investigation.
- Investigators say the suspect's motive remains unknown as the NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force probes the incident, which occurred on Yud Shevat with a vehicle bearing New Jersey license plates.
- Video shows the driver reversing and striking the doors at least four times around 8:46 p.m., with a 2012 Honda Accord found mounted on the sidewalk as bystanders confronted him.
- Officials evacuated the Chabad headquarters as a precaution while the NYPD Emergency Service Unit set a perimeter and swept the vehicle, reporting no injuries; the NYPD Bomb Squad found no explosives and will increase security across all five boroughs.
- The site, long known as 770, serves as the central hub of the worldwide Chabad-Lubavitch movement since 1940, and Mayor Zohran Mamdani and state officials offered assistance while Chabad said video suggests the crash was intentional.
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Car slams into entrance of New York City synagogue, no injuries reported
By Kanishka Singh Jan 28 (Reuters) – A car slammed into the entrance of the headquarters of a Jewish religious order in New York City on Wednesday in an incident that police said they were investigating as a hate crime. No injuries were reported from the incident at the Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters in Brooklyn and police said the driver was arrested. Chabad followers, also known as Lubavitchers, belong to the ultra-Orthodox Hasidic schoo…
Vehicle rams into Chabad headquarters in New York; no injuries reported, driver in custody
While the driver's motive is still unclear, NYPD ramped up security at synagogues across the city. Mayor Mamdani, who visited th scene, called the incident 'deeply alarming'
·Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
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